Is it just the momentum and word of mouth, or are there improved features as well?
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I just learnt of bluesky a few hours ago. Wtf do they think it will be different than any of the other corporate social media? We are nearing 20 years since the start of MySpace, do they really think thus time it’s going to be different?
Corporate daddies know how to make things usable for the everyman.
I don’t think that’s it. Lemmy has been super fucking easy for me to onboard and navigate
Artificial scarcity (invites) and VC funding
like shooting fish in a barrel
Funding from the Vietcong? Interesting…
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Venture Capital
It’s the plot from Missing In Action 4
You would think after the first 3 times they would’ve brought a cell phone, or maybe figured the armed forces weren’t for them…
People just join it thinking it’s Jack Dorsey’s next twitter.
A cult leader in Jack Dorsey
Jack literally deleted his bluesky account and ran off to nostr
A noted cryptobro ran off to join the other cryptobros on Cryptobro Central.
What. A. Surprise.
You can just click Follow and start following someone. You don’t have to perform a copy-paste dance to bring the username back to your instance and do the following there.
In the Mastodon app you can just click “follow”. Since BS doesn’t have a web interface at all, it’s probably safe to assume that this is not a major reason a BS user would avoid Mastodon. Since they’re not on desktop anyway.
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Thanks didn’t realize that, edited my comment
I only use Mastodon as a desktop website.
They always had a website, but it used to run off a staging subdomain
When federation is live on the main node on bluesky there will still be some similar effects when you follow links from other servers, in that you’ll need to bring that over to your own server somehow to follow and interact.
With Mastodon when you follow another’s link you’re asked to specify your own instance, in Bluesky you’ll enter your domain based username and it will find your instance.
Also with the CDN like BGS caching servers being shared across instances you’ll be able to find more content from your home instance so it will feel more like Twitter. You can directly search for users on other servers.
The process got easier in mastodon 4.2.0, now you just have to type in your instance and it takes you to it directly.
Who wants to type anything?
Wasn’t that fixed - or at least ameliorated - in the newest upgrade of Masto?
It was, yeah. Same with Lemmy for the most part too. I can just search profiles and hit follow like Twitter (derogatory) now
An invite-only strategy straight out of the early 2000s
Most of the people I followed on Twitter. Unfortunately.
A megalomaniac owner
Are you referring to Jack Dorsey? He’s not the owner, he just gave them grant money in the beginning. It’s a non-profit so technically no individual “owns” it.
Wait - are you sure it’s non-profit? If so, why the VC money?
No, he’s wrong (obviously) it’s a for profit startup.
It’s not currently making money but that’s different than nonprofit obviously.
He’s right about the Jack part though.
He’s endorsing Kennedy so yeah there’s that hot mess.
ew gross
Ah yeah i stand corrected:
“Prior to the seed round, Bluesky’s website described the company as a Public Benefit LLC owned by Graber and other Bluesky employees.[33] Post-seed round, the company describes itself as a public-benefit C Corp.”
oooh i stand corrected anywho that makes me more anxious to try it if they would just send me my gd invite that i requested like a year ago ;__;
Mastodon is nonprofit. Blue sky is for profit.
You’re right about the Dorsey part.
Tho I agree with all the comments I have to say the general vibe of bluesky is more playful and fun compared to mastadon, perhaps its just my bias. But just like lemmy generally feels like a nice place to be so does bluesky- the vibe feels inviting.
Have an invite?
No i’m sorry
I do. DM me.
Note: I only have 1 available right now.
I DMed let me know if kbin/Lemmy messaging is broken.
It must be because I got this comment, but not a DM. I’ll try to DM you.
Edit: I tried to send a message but 403 error. :/
Well that’s ridiculous. Had no idea that wasn’t possible til just now.
I can post the invite code here, but you’ll have to be fast lol. Let me know
Alright, I’ll try lol
I’ve got an account on Bluesky and I’m not sure if I agree. Like 90% of the posts I’ve seen on there are about Bluesky itself, there wasn’t really anything beyond that.
Well small new platforms do have a lotta posts about themselves, lemmy isnt new but is still full of posts about lemmy
I generally agree, but I felt like Bluesky was on a whole different level.
I think the issue is that there’s a slow trickle of people who have just gotten in and go “Wow I just got in, has anyone got any tips?”
Find one or more feeds you like and pin them. I use the newly created For You feed (which algorithmically puts stuff there it thinks you will like) and a couple of topical feeds that are specific to my interests. I think it’s great. Way more content that I care about than there ever was on twitter, and way way more engagement between folks.
I’m a big proponent of Mastodon/Firefish in general, but while they win in volume, Bluesky is already pulling ahead for me in signal to noise ratio. (I think that’s very subjective to what things interest you, so YMMV.)
Yeah, if you can get past all the posts about Reddit. Lemmy users mostly spend time bitching about Reddit, Apple, and Microsoft. It’s exhausting.
And 90% of posts on lemmy seem to be about reddit…
It is easier to get into. It is easier to continue with it. There is an obvious no-brainer app.
Main positive thing I’ve heard is that it has a different vibe and culture that some might find more open and fun and sometimes even less problematic. That’s just hearsay, I’m not on there, but I’ve heard it from people I like and trust (on masto).
Yeah it’s basically old twitter before all the political drama and bots. The discover tab isn’t full of rage bait. I expect if you stop needing an invite to get in it’ll go down hill quickly.
Invites are really common on other sites now that a critical mass has been reached where people have invited everyone they know who is interested already and are like selling them, there are already accounts that farm engagement on there like “funny cat pics of the day” or something and it will indeed have some cat pics taken from wherever but the point of the account is to follow thousands of accounts to get followed back, and thereby build a following to sell off. It’s an extremely clumsy strategy but it’s being pursued often enough that you can’t just assume a bluesky account isn’t a bad actor. So if that is the threshold then it’s already been reached.
A good write up https://buffer.com/resources/bluesky-social/
This name will never not read to me as “bloo-skee”
As much as people may not like to hear it Ease of use from being one centralized platform is a big factor
Just login and be done with it
But I logged in to Lemmy and was done too.
how many instances did you look at, how often where you greeted with “choose an instance” lemmy is not as easy as techys think it is
I looked at three instances.
and theres your problem, looking at instances, its not a normal thing you need to do or ever had to do on any other similar website reddit would have never taken off if it where instanced like lemmy for example
Which is great. It fends off the people I don’t want to interact with here.
